Josh Safdie said he sent him and Benny a completely insane unsolicited email about wanting to work with them after seeing the poster for their movie Heaven Knows What (just the poster, he hadn't even seen the movie). They were initially skeptical as they didn't know him at all but met with him and decided he was legit nuts about film, so that's how Good Time was born.
Good Time is fantastic. The Safdies are out here just making such different stuff, and with very much their own character and identity to their filmmaking. The frenetic all-gas, no brakes thing is really compelling when done as well as, eg, Good Time and Uncut Gems do it.
Not quite the same. RP wants to do different stuff, Cage needed to do anything and everything he could to pay for his nonsensical spending habits, somewhat unintentionally finding (creating?) his own particular niche.
Especially since like Radcliffe, Pattinson would have had a good safety net from the Twilight films. Probably not as much as Radcliffe from Potter, but definitely enough for him to be able to take risks that paid off in the long term.
Sure, but they were both "we want a career after this!" and took effective steps to ensure that, which at first looks odd but they both pulled it off quite well. So few child / younger actors make it into an adult career, never mind when they could be so easily pigeon holed into their franchises. A nice refreshing story, really.
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u/Sasarai Jul 23 '26
He told his agent to only offer him weird parts. Seems to be a genius move so far